Synopsis: Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend. For twenty-three hours. In eighth grade.
Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: What went wrong?
The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious investigation are captured here. From a disastrous Putt-Putt date involving a backward prosthetic foot, to his introduction to CFD (Close Fast Dancing), to a misguided "grand gesture" at a Miss America pageant, this story is about looking for love--or at least a girlfriend--in all the wrong places.
Review:
I got this ebook from Netgalley in return of an honest review.
My first impression when I started reading this was An Abundance of Katherines meets The Fault in our Stars meets What's your number?
Overall this was immensely quirky and adorkable and funny and, most of all, inspirational to levels it's almost impossible to describe.
I could honestly feel every word, every emotion Josh Sundquist wrote, and the fact that this is non-fiction makes makes my heart skip a beat, although it can almost be read as a young-adult contemporary fiction novel. It was brilliant.
I completely fell in love with the story and the author's voice, his way to look at things, how he looked at his disability, the way he interpreted his girlfriend-less years, the conclusion he got to in the end and, most of all, his heartwarming ending that makes you believe that, in the end, if it's meant to be, it will happen, one way or another.
Honestly, through most of this book, I just wanted to hug him and tell him we could totally hand out sometime. I was so invested in all of this I watched almost all of Josh's videos on Youtube. I wanted more.
In conclusion, this was probably one of the cutest books I will read this year. It was perfection of a memoir, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to feel happy. I have no doubt that We Should Hang Out Sometime is going to make every day better and make you feel warm and complete inside.
